It is obvious to any experienced radiologist that the vantage point from which we
view something powerfully shapes what we see. For example, a metallic foreign body
in the subcutaneous soft tissues may be easy to spot by plain radiography, but a lower-density
foreign body such as a wooden splinter is likely to be so radiolucent that it cannot
be detected on radiographs but proves easily detectable by ultrasound, where acoustic
impedance, not physical density, is the key imaging parameter. Likewise, a lesion
such as a meningioma that initially appears intra-axial on transverse images may prove
to be obviously extra-axial on coronal or sagittal reformatted images. To stand the
best chance of seeing things for what they really are, we need to look at them from
the appropriate perspective.
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Publication history
Published online: August 30, 2022
Accepted:
July 13,
2022
Received:
July 13,
2022
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